Find the materials and PowerPoints used in class on this page.


Week #15 NonFiction Writing




Week #11 Point of View/Perspective, Speaking/Listening





Week #10 Visual Literacy, Character Development, Voice








Week #8 Comprehension, Word Choice Writing Minilesson






Week #7 Reader's Workshop, Text Complexity, Story Structure, Vocabulary



Text Complexity and Matching Reader and Text


​Tues/Th Combined PowerPoint





Week #6 Fluency and Creating a Setting







Week #4- Reading like a Writer, Emergent Literacy



Thursday, February 7- Bring Computers for work on Literature Focus Units



Week #3- Multiliteracies, Non-fiction writing, Writer's Crawl


In preparation for our field trip, please read this article for class this week. (Don't worry about Ch. 7, we'll get to that later).




Museum Writing Crawl






Week #2- Critical Literacy


For Tuesday, January 22












Week #1- Building Community

January 15




Bring a book that can be used in the beginning of the year. It can be a book that you would use to develop classroom norms, get to know students, or create a learning community. (Do some research if you are having trouble thinking of one. There are oodles out there. I encourage you to check it out of a library)

Read Ch. 1&2 in Language Arts. Complete a 3,2,1

3- Ideas that are new to you
2- Connections
1- Question

Complete this self-assessment.




Feel free to save this in our shared Dropbox folder. (Save a Tree) The 3,2,1 you will need to be able to refer to in class so you can decide if you want to print it out.


Make a folder in Dropbox to share with me. Use the following naming protocol:
264_Your Name